Cardiovascular Medicine

The Cardiovascular Medicine Work Group has been tasked with recommending optional criteria and test scripts to other certification categories to address the unique needs of office-based cardiovascular physicians and practices with a goal of improving health IT adoption in that specialty medicine group.

Co-chairs:

• Cortney Nicolato
  Vice President, Healthcare Strategies
  Get Real Consulting

• Michael Paquin, AA, FHIMSS
  President
  MDP Group

Members:

• Marjorie Amato, MBA, RHIA, ACS-CA
  Director, Business Office Coding Network
  MedAxiom

• Vince Bufalino, MD
  President & CEO
  Midwest Heart Specialists

• James Dove, MD
  President Emeritus
  Prairie Cardiovascular Consultants, Ltd.

• Nicholas Gawrit, BS, MBA
  CEO and President
  Heartbase, Inc.

• Larry Grider, B.S., B.A., MPH, PA-C
  COO
  Gateway Electronic Medical Management Systems (GEMMS)

• Alan Katz, MD
  Director, Cardiac Imaging and Informatics
  Saint Francis Hospital

• Nancy Miracle, RN, BSN
  Principal
  Phoenix Health Systems

• Ileana Pina, MD, FACC
  Professor of Medicine
  Case Western Reserve University

• Maria Rudolph, MPH
  Vice President
  e-MDs

• Gerald Serwer, MD
  Professor
  University of Michigan Health System

• Harry Solomon
  Interoperability Architect
  GE Healthcare

• James Tcheng, MD
  Professor
  Duke University Health System

• John Windle, MD
  Professor and Chief of Cardiology
  University of Nebraska Medical Center